# suster
## English
### Noun

suster (plural susters)
* (African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of sister.
** 2014 March, Udine C Fontenot Powel, Is This Time Forever?‎, page 247:Tigger turns to me and says “Mommy, that was my brudder and suster!”

#### Alternative forms

* sustah

### Anagrams

* estrus, Tusser, russet, surest, Suters, tusser, struse

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch zuster, from Middle Dutch suster, from Old Dutch swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sœstər/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

suster (plural susters)
* sister
    Synonym: sus

#### Coordinate terms

* broer

#### Derived terms

* sus

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch zuster (“sister, nun, nurse”), from Middle Dutch suster, from Old Dutch swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sus.tər/

### Noun

sustêr (plural)
* nun
    Synonym: biarawati
* (colloquial) nurse (female)
    Synonyms: juru rawat, ners, perawat

#### Derived terms

* susteran

### Further reading

* “suster” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

### Noun

suster f
* sister
* sister, nun

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: zuster
** Afrikaans: suster
** Berbice Creole Dutch: sosro, sosoro
** Skepi Creole Dutch: soster
** → Caribbean Hindustani: sester
** → Caribbean Javanese: soster, sester
** → Indonesian: suster
** → Saramaccan: soosútu
* Limburgish: zöster

### Further reading

* “suster”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “suster (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* cyster, cystyr, scyster, sister, sistir, soster, souster, sustir, syster, systir, systyr
* swuster (Early Middle English)
* sussterr (Ormulum)
* zoster (Kent)

### Etymology

From Old English sweostor, swustor, sweoster, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Some forms are influenced by Old Norse systir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsustər/, /ˈsistər/
* (Early Middle English) IPA: /ˈswustər/
* (Southern) IPA: /ˈzustər/, /ˈzistər/

### Noun

suster (plural sustren or sustres or (rare) suster, genitive sustres or suster)
* A sister or step-sister; a female sibling.
* A (Christian) woman (i.e. as a "sister in life/Christ")
* A nun, anchoress; a woman living a religious lifestyle.
** c. 1225, “Introduction”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)‎, Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 1, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:Ant ȝe mine leoue ſuſtren habbeð moni dei icrauet on me efter riƿleAnd you, my beloved sisters, have asked me for a rule many times.
* (nautical) A catch to secure cords at sea.

#### Related terms

* susterhede
* suster-in-lawe

#### Descendants

* English: sister
** → Gulf Arabic: سِسْتَر (sistar, “female nurse”)
** → Japanese: シスター (shisutā)
** → Korean: 시스터 (siseuteo)
* Scots: sister, syster
* Yola: zister

#### References

* “suster, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-12.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Altered from Old Galician-Portuguese sostẽer, from Latin sustinēre (“to sustain”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /susˈte(ʁ)/ [susˈte(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /susˈte(ʁ)/ [susˈte(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /susˈte(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /suʃˈte(ʁ)/ [suʃˈte(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /susˈte(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /suʃˈteɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /suʃˈteɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /suʃˈte.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: sus‧ter

### Verb

suster (first-person singular present sustenho, first-person singular preterite sustive, past participle sustido)
* to support (to keep from falling)
    Synonyms: apoiar, suportar, sustentar
* to sustain (to provide for or nourish something)
    Synonyms: alimentar, nutrir, tratar
* to detain (to keep (someone) from proceeding)
    Synonyms: conter, deter, parar
* to contain; to enclose
    Synonym: restringir

#### Derived terms

* sustido

#### Related terms

* sustenido
* sustenizar
* sustentar
* sustento
* sutiã

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

### Noun

suster c (plural susters, diminutive susterke)
* sister
    Coordinate term: broer

#### Further reading

* “suster”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011